Death penalty enacted
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THE Maldives overturned a six-decade-old moratorium on capital punishment with the adoption of a new regulation this week that allows for the death penalty to be used to punish certain crimes.
The government enacted the regulation, which makes provision for execution by lethal injection, for the crimes of premeditated murder or deliberate manslaughter.
While the age of criminal responsibility is 10 in the Maldives, some crimes under the country’s Sharia laws — known as Hadd offenses — have an age of responsibility of 7.
This means that juveniles could potentially face execution in the archipelago.
Facilities at the Maldives’ Maafushi Prison are being built to carry out the sentences. Since reenacted, 20 people have been sentenced to death, though one case was overturned, the Haveeru newspaper reported.
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